Enabling Legacy Nvidia GPU in virtual machine?

[Gershy13]

Hello all, I just got a VM setup on unraid of Big Sur, It works fine using VNC as the emulated graphics, but I'm wondering if I can get my gt610 to work? It's a Fermi based card so it doesn't have great support, but surely it'll be better than the VNC emulated card? I see that OCLP has patches to make Fermi work on big sur.

My question is how can I get my card working when passed through? If I pass it through I get a black screen and no output from the card, and macos doesn't boot up. If I turn off the pass through and put it back on VNC, it works fine and boots.

Is there something I have to do to get the Nvidia card to display the boot picker atleast? I have followed the guide and put nvda_drv to 31. Is there anything else that I need to do?

Thanks
Gersh

 

[EliteMacx86]

Hello all, I just got a VM setup on unraid of Big Sur, It works fine using VNC as the emulated graphics, but I'm wondering if I can get my gt610 to work? It's a Fermi based card so it doesn't have great support, but surely it'll be better than the VNC emulated card? I see that OCLP has patches to make Fermi work on big sur.

My question is how can I get my card working when passed through? If I pass it through I get a black screen and no output from the card, and macos doesn't boot up. If I turn off the pass through and put it back on VNC, it works fine and boots.

Is there something I have to do to get the Nvidia card to display the boot picker atleast? I have followed the guide and put nvda_drv to 31. Is there anything else that I need to do?

Thanks
Gersh

What's your VM Software?

 

[Gershy13]

What's your VM Software?

QEMU on unRaid (the normal VM section of unRaid). I used macinabox to create the VM.

 

[EliteMacx86]

QEMU on unRaid (the normal VM section of unRaid). I used macinabox to create the VM.

That works. We have tested it at our end. Guide is coming soon. Stay tuned!

 

[Gershy13]

That works. We have tested it at our end. Guide is coming soon. Stay tuned!

GPU passthrough works, my question is how do I enable the Nvidia flags for a Fermi GPU (GT 610). I think it has something to do with using OCLP?